268811 - Search toolbar cannot add engines

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246982

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I cannot add engines to my search toolbar.  I thought it might have been a
problem with the Gentoo ebuild, but I installed version 1.0 from the official
installer, and it still doesn't work.

I can select "Add Engines..." from the menu.  I select the engine I want (I've
tried several, including the Gentoo package search and Wikipedia), and it gives
me the confirmation button, but the engine isn't added to the drop-down, as I
assume it should be.  It still doesn't appear after restart firefox.

I've had this problem with every version of firefox since this feature was added.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select the search toolbar dropdown
2. Select Add Engines...
3. Select (for example) the Wikipedia search engine link
4. Select OK at the confirmation
5. Restart firefox

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
It should have shown Wikipedia in the search bar.

Comment 1

[Benoit Caron]

The problem is also reproducible with this version:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

As packaged in Fedora Core 3

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

To add engines, you need to have write permissions for the program installation
directory, until bug 123315 is fixed.

If you don't have write permissions for that directory, please mark this a dupe
of bug 123315.

Comment 3

[Rudolf Keuner]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> 
> I cannot add engines to my search toolbar.  I thought it might have been a
> problem with the Gentoo ebuild, but I installed version 1.0 from the official
> installer, and it still doesn't work.
> 
> I can select "Add Engines..." from the menu.  I select the engine I want (I've
> tried several, including the Gentoo package search and Wikipedia), and it gives
> me the confirmation button, but the engine isn't added to the drop-down, as I
> assume it should be.  It still doesn't appear after restart firefox.
> 
> I've had this problem with every version of firefox since this feature was added.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Select the search toolbar dropdown
> 2. Select Add Engines...
> 3. Select (for example) the Wikipedia search engine link
> 4. Select OK at the confirmation
> 5. Restart firefox
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Nothing
> 
> Expected Results:  
> It should have shown Wikipedia in the search bar.

I have exactly the same problem, reproducible as named. Further, in the
installation directory the e. g. leo.src and leo.png are present in
(...)/searchplugins/ which means that the direcory has writing permission. in
the home/.mozilla/firefox/... directory there isn't any searchplungin.
The same problem existed in earlier versions of firefox. 
I' m using gentoo too, btw.

Comment 4

[Mark Bickford]

I have encountered this twice as well, trying to install IMDB and now WikiPedia,
with the same behavior as described below.  It seems to have finally worked (the
site was added), but after two full restarts of Firefox.  Note that this is in
the Windows build, not Linux.  No Javascript errors appeared in the console when
I tried to add the site.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Comment 5

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246982 ***